Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-01-07

wealthiest women in that State. Mr.. Allen
| M, Donnan, of Richmond, is about to marry
Miss Edith Talmage of Brooklyn, daughter OF
the famous preacher, DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage.
On Wednesday last, Mr.. VIM. l.. hoyail'
| counsel for the British bondholders was
married at Richmond to Miss Page Aylett,
daughter of the late Patrick Henry Aylett,
who was killed in the Capitol disaster. A
silver service from England was among the
bridal presents.
| local Option has been defeated in Clarke
county at the polls, but in South Boston,
Halifax, it has been successful by vote of
/ 174 to 40.
Of the five ex-Governors of North Carolina.
now living, Reid, Holden, Brogden, Vance
and Jarvis, three have had paralysis. Ex-
Governors Reid, Holden and Vance have thus
been attacked In 1868 Ex-Governor Vance
/ suffered from facial paralysis. Very few peo-
pie now know or remember that he had such
a stroke.
The ssReligious Herald" of Richmond, re-
lates the following incident: ga pastor in a
State adjoining this, preaching from text,
| Beware of Covetousness, said: Last Sunday
night the collection in this house amounte
to ST. so, and the dollar was thrown in by a
Baptist brother from Richmond, Va, who
happened to be here and did not know any
better The other 600 of you dropped in the
! 50 cents'n
| The Southern Bell Telephone Co., doing
| business in the Southern States pays five per
cent. dividend on its stock quarterly--twenty
per cent. year. 1t is not surprising that
Prof. Bell was lately able to make his wife a
little present of $4,000, 900.
Jonn Powell, OF v asnington city, has gun
that was owned and used by Gen Geo. Wash
| ington. One of the heirs Of the Washington
J family sold it for a small sum to its present
owner who had it restocked and percussion
| lock put in, and has killed many deer with it.
Prof. Emmons, of Washington city, of the
Geological Survey, is trying to have his in
sane wife put in an Asylum where she has
been before, but the lady who is wealthy in
her own right, is, aided by her lawyers, fight
ing to stay out. At the Hyde Park hotel in
London, Eng, last summer, she hired little
German band to play in front of her window
all night, and persisted until the proprietor
sent for the police aud had the band arrested
The jury in the case of Briggs & Co., butter
dealers. New York, Friday, rendered verdict
of equity" to charge of selling oleomarga-
rine, representing it to be butter. The offense
was committed in May, 1885, and chemists
testified that oleomargarine is made now SO
that it is impossible to detect it from butter
Judge Macomber inflicted the full penalty of
the law, $500 fine.
The Rev. E. G. Johnson of Trinity church,
Bristol, Conn, was walking with dignifed
stride down the street, on a recent day. when
he came upon slippery spot and narrowly
escaped fall. AS he was paving the air to
keep on his feet, a big railroad man came
| along and remarked, with a grin: ''Guess
mother drink will just bout fetch you" Mr.
johnson Strengthened up and inquired with
severe dignity, 'sWhat's that, sir ?" "'Nother
| drinkll bout fetch you," replied the sympa-
thizing railroad man. And he walked on,
leaving the astonished clergyman staring after
him.
| James A. McMaster for forty years editor
of the 'sFreeman's Journal" the leading
Catholic paper of New York, died there last
| week. In politics he was Democrat, and
| before the breaking out of the war he was
| follower of Stephen A. Douglas. In his zeal
! for State rights he was bold advocate of the
! claims of the Southern States, and in 1862
| Secretary Seward suppressed the "Freeman's
| Journal and had Mr.. McMaster locked up for
| nearly year in Fort Lafayette.
| On Christmas day some brutes in Boyle Co.
! KY, got W. T. Clarkson, strong prohibition
| ist drunk and took him around to the saloons
until he was unconscious. Then they held
him up and poured liquor down his throat
The discovery that the man had died under
the outrage did not sober them up, and they
put his body in wagon raising over it ban
| ner inscribed ''Prohibitionist, died December
| 25," and drove along the road with shouts
, and songs. At last accounts mob were hunt
ting them to hang them.
One very funny custom of the theatres of
| the city of Mexico is their manner of keeping
| their reserved seat diagram, the seats being
| marked upon it by small holes, in which are
placed wooden pegs. When you buy reser-
the hole you have selected, and gives it to you
| as your check. The ushers know the seat it
designates, by the length or color of the peg.
This seems incredible, but it is true.
A'hot meal for one cent may be obtained in
Brooklyn. n Y, at any of the sections of St..
Luke's Coffee Station Society. At these de-
pots every day from to a. M, one penny
| will buy half pint of coffee with sugar and
milk and thick slice of bread From II a..
N. to p. NJ strong soup of meat and vege-
tables with bread, at the same price, will vary
the bill of fare, followed by half pint of oat
meal porridge, and pure milk, from to p.
| m.
| Among the signs removed from the streets
! of Baltimore under the new ordinance, was
| that of the old Wayne Tavern which had hung
there since 1888, nearly century. In that
year it had the portrait of General Wayne
| standing alone, his left hand thrust under his
| coat tails and his right hand resting on his
sword About thirty years ago on artist adj
ded background to the picture, with SOL
dier holding the Generals horse while the
General addressed his troops.
| The entire amount contributed to the
| Charleston relief fund from all sources was
| $780, 104. Amount received by the Relief
Committee 1854. 25S. Of this amount New
York contributed $180,560, Massachusetts
500 ,s47 California $40, TAI, Georgia $15, 761,
North Carolina 1913, 27O, Illinois $13, $50,
Pennsylvania $65, 78O, South Carolina, $751;
2OS, Virginia $13, 1850. Washington City SILL
435, England 1915, s44 Germany 81, e67, France
! oEc u,l1o,3 s.A S,,aip &1S Canada &111